Helpful hints

Four weeks from now is Christmas! I’m excited about it, but there are many who fight depression and have challenges finding joy at Christmas time for a variety of reasons. These include financial limitations, loneliness, grief, exhaustion, health challenges, unpleasant

Happy Thanksgiving, America. Good news! This Thanksgiving you’ll have more than a month to get ready for Christmas. If you are one of those who insists that Thanksgiving must be celebrated before you even think about Christmas, this week will

SIX WEEKS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! Our daughter “Boo” told me last year that, for her, the Thanksgiving dinner shopping trip is the official start of the Christmas season! Hopefully your grocery shopping will be as enjoyable for your family as it

SEVEN WEEKS ‘TIL CHRISTMAS! The Christmas spirit is hitting all around us this week. I made a trip into Walmart, right after Halloween and immediately noticed that the “seasonal” shelves, at the front of the store (filled with costumes and

Thanksgiving is less than a month away and this year you have more than a month after that ’til Christmas! This fills many with incredible excitement and some with little bit of trepidation or apprehension. Apprehension that there might not

Wooo Hooo! It’s EIGHT WEEKS until Christmas!! (Actually a little less, life just got in the way of publishing this!) The countdown continues with your third week of tips to help you gently travel into the holidays. On week ten you

I was asked today, if there really ARE only ten weeks until Christmas? Yes, I counted it myself! Christmas comes in just ten weeks! If you are stressed out simply thinking about it, then this series is for you! Even

Warm summer nights, trips to the beach, cross country vacations and camp outs in the mountains are what August is all about. Most of us don’t even feel like shopping, but August is when you’ll find your best discounted prices

SIX WEEKS TO GO UNTIL CHRISTMAS!! Every year, after both our Thanksgiving menu, and shopping list are completed, we take a morning to purchase the groceries. One local grocer traditionally has turkey priced as low as 59 cents a pound,